Orton
Orton is a suburb of the City of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England, about 3 miles south west of Peterborough city centre to the south of the River Nene.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Orton Waterville” and “Orton, Peterborough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Longthorpe Tower and Serpentine Green.
Longthorpe Tower
Photo: Julian Dowse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longthorpe Tower is a 14th-century three-storey tower in the Longthorpe area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. It is famous for its well-preserved set of medieval murals.
Serpentine Green
Shopping center
Photo: Lofty, Public domain.
Serpentine Green is a shopping centre that opened 8 February 1999 in the Hampton Hargate district of Southern Peterborough in England. It is named after the nearby Serpentine Lake and the adjoining dual-carrigeway outside the centre 'The Serpentine' When…
Ferry Meadows railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Skuce, Public domain.
Overton is a station on the Nene Valley Railway between Wansford and Orton Mere. It was originally named Ferry Meadows, the name change being made in 2017.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peterborough and Castor.
Peterborough
Photo: Mdbeckwith, CC0.
Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
Castor
Village
Photo: Mike Bardill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castor is a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority, about 4 miles west of the city centre. The parish is part of the former Soke of Peterborough, which was considered part of Northamptonshire until 1888 and then Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire. Castor is situated 2½ miles northwest of Orton.
Longthorpe
Suburb
Longthorpe is an area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Located two miles west from the city centre, the area covers 1,390 acres.
Orton
- Category: locality
- Location: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.5485° or 52° 32′ 54″ northLongitude
-0.2943° or 0° 17′ 40″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9C4XGPX4+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 13392615399OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
“Orton” goes by many names.
- Italian: “Orton”
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